20Th Century category: 9982 books
Chicago's Block Clubs
How Neighbors Shape the City
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
What do you do if your alley is strewn with garbage after the sanitation truck comes through? Or if you’re tired of the rowdy teenagers next door keeping you up all night? Is there a vacant lot on your block accumulating weeds, needles, and litter? For a century, Chicagoans have joined block clubs...
Global Exchanges
Scholarships and Transnational Circulations in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Exchanges between different cultures and institutions of learning have taken place for centuries, but it was only in the twentieth century that such efforts evolved into formal programs that received focused attention from nation-states, empires and international organizations. Global Exchanges provides...
After the Map
Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
For most of the twentieth century, maps were indispensable. They were how governments understood, managed, and defended their territory, and during the two world wars they were produced by the hundreds of millions. Cartographers and journalists predicted the dawning of a “map-minded age,” where...
Scientism and Technocracy in the Twentieth Century
The Legacy of Scientific Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Scientism, or the application of methods, attitudes, and concepts drawn from the natural sciences to human activities and social policy formation, is a pervasive feature of modern life, and it is one which has immense impact upon virtually all aspects of our private and public lives. This work explores...
Welcome to the Oglala Nation
A Documentary Reader in Oglala Lakota Political History
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Popular culture largely perceives the tragedy at Wounded Knee in 1890 as the end of Native American resistance in the West, and for many years historians viewed this event as the end of Indian history altogether. The Dawes Act of 1887 and the reservation system dramatically changed daily life and...
by Matti O. Hannikainen
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The long-term development of public green spaces such as parks, public gardens, and recreation grounds in London during the twentieth century is a curiously neglected subject, despite the fact that various kinds of green spaces cover huge areas in cities in the UK today. This book explores how and...
Women in Twentieth-Century Britain
Social, Cultural and Political Change
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
Women's lives have changed dramatically over the course of the twentieth century: reduced fertility and the removal of formal barriers to their participation in education, work and public life are just some examples. At the same time, women are under-represented in many areas, are paid significantly...
Ireland's Great Famine in Irish-American History
Enshrining a Fateful Memory
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Ireland’s Great Famine in Irish-American History: Enshrining a Fateful Memory offers a new, concise interpretation of the history of the Irish in America. Author and distinguished professor Mary Kelly’s book is the first synthesized volume to track Ireland’s Great Famine within America’s immigrant...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
The main purpose of the book is to introduce the work of Alan S. Milward and to acknowledge the full magnitude of his scientific contribution to contemporary British and European history. The book is a collection of essays which provide a better understanding of Alan Milward’s extensive intellectual...
Sorrows of a Century
Interpreting Suicide in New Zealand, 19002000
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Focusing on New Zealand’s comprehensive and accessible coroners’ records, John Weaver analyses some twelve thousand cases to determine the social and cultural factors that contribute to suicide rates. He examines the official investigations into sudden deaths, placing them within the context of major...
Seven Lives from Mass Observation
Britain in the Late Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
What was it like to live in Britain during the second half of the twentieth century? In a successor to his acclaimed Nine Wartime Lives: Mass Observation and the Making of the Modern Self, James Hinton uses autobiographical writing contributed to Mass Observation since 1981 to explore the social and...
The Real Thing
Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
In this classic study of the relationship between technology and culture, Miles Orvell demonstrates that the roots of contemporary popular culture reach back to the Victorian era, when mechanical replications of familiar objects reigned supreme and realism dominated artistic representation. Reacting...
by Timothy Cheek
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
This vivid narrative history of Chinese intellectuals and public life provides a guide to making sense of China today. Timothy Cheek presents a map and a method for understanding the intellectual in the long twentieth century, from China's defeat in the Sino-Japanese war in 1895 to the 'Prosperous...
Bodies of Reform
The Rhetoric of Character in Gilded Age America
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
From the patricians of the early republic to post-Reconstruction racial scientists, from fin de siècle progressivist social reformers to post-war sociologists, character, that curiously formable yet equally formidable “stuff,” has had a long and checkered history giving shape to the American...